Bryant H. McGill Quotes

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in my high school graduation photo. Maybe I haven't got any family or friends. Yes, yes, I know all that. But, strange as it might seem, I'm not entirely dissatisfied with life... I feel pretty much at home with what I am. I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want any unicorns behind fences.

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

First become alone. First start enjoying yourself. First love yourself. First become so authentically happy that if nobody comes it doesn't matter; you are full, overflowing. If nobody knocks at your door it is perfectly okay; you are not missing. You are not waiting for someone to come and knock at the door. You are at home. If somebody comes: good-beautiful. If nobody comes that too is beautiful and good.

All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.